Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

The cover for The Neverfear by Katherine Rundell has been revealed! Masked bandits, kidnapping, daring quests…the race is on. The third epic Impossible Creatures adventure arrives 27th August.

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

Get up to mischief with Rory Sparkes 🐘 and the amazing Hugh Bonneville at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 22nd March Tickets can be bought here 🎟️ : https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2026/march-22/rory-sparkes-and-the-elephant-in-the-room

Get up to mischief with Rory Sparkes 🐘 and the amazing Hugh Bonneville at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 22nd March Tickets can be bought here 🎟️ : https://oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-events/2026/march-22/rory-sparkes-and-the-elephant-in-the-room

Join Little Bear 🐻 for a new adventure with the incredible Michael Rosen @MichaelRosenYes at Oxford Literary Festival @OxfordLitFest on Sunday 29th March. Get your tickets here to go on your own BIG JOURNEY with Michael and Little Bear in Oxford! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4sRmOCZ

Join Daffodil for the Worst Birthday EVER at #CardiffKidsLitFest #GwylLlenPlantCaerdydd Joanna Nadin will be at Cardiff Children's Literature Festival this year on Sunday 26th April @CDFKidsLitFest Tickets are only £5 and can be purchased here: https://bit.ly/4cRNbEe

Bloomsbury Children's Books are pleased to announced two of our titles on the Zephyr list have been longlisted for the @JhalakPrize 2026! 🗺️ Wild Journey by A.M. Dassu 👻 Songs for Ghosts by Clara Kumagai Congratulations to the authors and thank you team Jhalak!

Happy Publication Day to all our authors and illustrators 📚 Big beautiful boOoOks out today including … 👻Fiction 9+ Scare B’n’B by Catherine Doyle and illustrated by Rachael Dean

Revelio! 📚⚡️✨ Here it is, the dazzling cover of the brand-new Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince Illustrated Edition with artwork by multi-award-winning artist Levi Pinfold. UK/ROW: bit.ly/4b4i3jn US: bit.ly/4rXTHOe Bloomsbury UK/ANZ exclusive pre-order offer and tote bag gift: bit.ly/3NiklCq

✨ Meet the characters of Chicken Hill ✨ Attack of the Zombie Cactus is the first book in the brilliant new full-colour graphic novel series from Beccy Blake - perfect for fans of Pablo and Splash and Bunny vs Monkey. Out now and available in all good bookshops! Welcome to weird 🐔🌵📘

Happy Publication Day! 📚🐻💥 Out now, online and at all good bookshops.

⚡📚 Say hello to Professor Dumbledore and Luna Lovegood! New editions in the Pocket Potters series, out today. (publishing 3rd March in the US with @scholastic).

Happy birthday Luna Lovegood!🫜👓💕🐴 💙🦅 Can you answer these 3 questions about your favourite Ravenclaw? 📚 🫜How did Luna first meet Harry Potter? 🫜Why does she wear Spectrespecs? 🫜What sort of beast is a Crumple-Horned Snorkack?

💕 Hop into Valentine’s Day with the Bunnies of Hoppity Hill 💕 Join our favourite bunnies on the cutest adventure as they search for the perfect hug. 🤗🌸🐇 Full of love and joy, it’s the sweetest gift for Valentine’s Day – and every day! Now available from all good bookshops 💞📚

👀First look at the covers of the NEW Hagrid and Dobby Pocket Potters! Perfect little character guides for kids starting their Harry Potter adventure. PRE-ORDER online now UK/ANZ bit.ly/3LMlfGI International bit.ly/3ZSVV4V US customers please visit Scholastic 📚⚡️

📘🌊🪼We are delighted to share the STUNNING cover for The Ocean Would Paint Me Blue by Zoulfa Katouh - author of global sensation As Long As The Lemon Trees Grow With beautiful cover art by Jenny Zemanek Coming 4th June and available to preorder now! 📘 waterstones.com/book/the-ocean…

Hop over to Hoppity Hill! 🐰 10 years of We’re Going on an Egg Hunt calls for something golden ✨ Meet The Bunnies of Hoppity Hill — a shiny anniversary edition, just in time for Easter 🐣💛 The perfect Easter treat for every little bunny - now available in all good bookshops 🐰✨

🐰✨ Our favourite bunnies are hopping off on a brand‑new adventure… Any guesses where they’re bouncing to next?

Something impossibly magical this way comes. Wednesday 3rd December, 12pm GMT.

Following the ceremony, we are proud to celebrate that The Poisoned King 🦁 by Katherine Rundell is the WINNER of the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards 2025. Thank you so much to the booksellers who shortlisted this title and to the wonderful readers who voted. 📚

Join Amber Hamilton in Waterstones Arndale for a Romantasy panel along with M.A Kuzniar and Emma Hinds. Get ready to talk all things fantasy, magic, world building, queerness - and of course, romance! 🔮🌈💖 It's a night that you won't want to miss. 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n79erT

Looking for something for the kids this half-term? Come join author and illustrator Sheena Dempsey in Lancashire and time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash 🐧, in a fun-filled session with behind the scenes insight on how Sheena makes her books! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n9gOST

Delighted that the Booker Prize have launched the Children's Booker Prize! The judging panel will also include children, with a commitment to donating 30,000 copies of the shortlisted titles. 🏆 📚

Join Amber Hamilton in Waterstones Arndale for a Romantasy panel along with M.A Kuzniar and Emma Hinds. Get ready to talk all things fantasy, magic, world building, queerness - and of course, romance! 🔮🌈💖 It's a night that you won't want to miss. 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n79erT

Author and Illustrator Sheena Dempsey will be in Huntington this half term with time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash🐧, for an interactive, creative event for young readers! Don't miss out on finding out the behind the scenes of this bestselling graphic novel series! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/3J4UFXG

Get your kids in Lincolnshire excited to read this half-term with Sheena Dempsey and her time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash! 🐧🐧 Join Sheena for fun drawalongs and behind the scenes in this bestselling graphic novel series! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4h7fZZb

Looking for something for the kids this half-term? Come join author and illustrator Sheena Dempsey in Lancashire and time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash 🐧, in a fun-filled session with behind the scenes insight on how Sheena makes her books! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4n9gOST

Author and Illustrator Sheena Dempsey will be in Huntington this half term with time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash🐧, for an interactive, creative event for young readers! Don't miss out on finding out the behind the scenes of this bestselling graphic novel series! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/3J4UFXG

Get your kids in Lincolnshire excited to read this half-term with Sheena Dempsey and her time-travelling penguins, Pablo and Splash! 🐧🐧 Join Sheena for fun drawalongs and behind the scenes in this bestselling graphic novel series! 🎟️: https://bit.ly/4h7fZZb

Impossibly wonderful news - Disney have acquired the film rights for Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures! https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-acquires-rights-impossible-creatures/

New friends will be joining the POCKET POTTERS series in 2026! POCKET POTTERS are collectable mini-guides, packed with facts, quotes and joyful illustrations. Harry, Ron and Hermione: out now Luna and Dumbledore: February 2026 Hagrid and Dobby: August 2026

Newly published! 🐳 To celebrate I'm giving away 3 of these paperbacks, signed and doodled in. Please... LIKE 🐚 COMMENT 🐚 SHARE 🐚 FOLLOW Winners will be randomly selected on Friday at 19.00 GMT. Good luck! 🐬 #bookgiveaway #Competition #Giveaway #childrensbooks @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social

Happy World Book Day 🥳📚 We, the Bloomsbury Children’s Team, do everything we can (sometimes even ‘silly’ social media posts) to encourage children to read for pleasure.

Happy World Book Day to all witches and wizards! 📚⚡️📖 Today, Thursday 6th March, we celebrate World Book Day.

Wishing our loveable Quidditch King, Ron Weasley, a very happy birthday and we hope he has a fantastic birthday breakfast! 🧡🦁🧶🎂🍫🍬🍳🍽️ POCKET POTTERS: Little Guides to the Harry Potter Stories coming 26th August!

Don’t miss the BIG BOOK GIVEAWAY FOR WORLD BOOK DAY on our Bloomsbury Children’s Instagram📚💚 You could win an upcycled, pop-up library FILLED with our brilliant books for YOUR CHOSEN LOCATION - a school, community centre, club or similar* www.instagram.com/reel/DGin8PAqC8Q/?igsh=MWsxY3U2MHJvNnM1aA

THE POISONED KING, the dazzling sequel to Katherine Rundell's Impossible Creatures, winner of the 2023 Waterstones Book of the Year. Pre-order your Signed Exclusive Edition from Waterstones today. Cover illustration by Daniel Egnéus.

💭🩵📖 Let’s say we were to have a blue-sky thinking meeting together, here over a cup of tea ☕️ 🫖 (brainstorm ideas and participants are encouraged to let their imagination run free) What can we do to encourage more children to read for pleasure in 2025? Let us know your blue-sky thoughts! 💭🩵📖